Re: bug 551859 - translating aisleriot card movement hints

[Åsmund Skjæveland <asmund skjaveland bio uio no>]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:01:19PM -0500, Vincent Povirk wrote:
> Ihar Hrachyshka has revived the discussion on
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551859, which is a bug
> about how we can't properly translate sentences like "Move the Ace of
> Hearts onto the Queen of Spades."

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I thought of the following:

Hoe about using shorthand symbols for the cards instead of longhand
names that are subject to grammar? The card symbols are present in
unicode, so instead the above string would be "Move A♥ onto Q♠".


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Åsmund Skjæveland